A 13-year-old Georgia boy faces multiple felony charges after being accused of making explosives in his home.

The teen, whose name has not been released because he is a minor, faces charges for a making a pipe bomb and a grenade, which were discovered after his mother called police Monday after making a separate disturbing find in their Monroe, Georgia.

The boy had sewn a knife into the jacket he planned to wear to a court appearance stemming a previous infraction, according to Fox Atlanta.

Terrified: The teen's startled mother called 911 after finding the knife sewn into his jacket

Concerned after discovering a knife sewn into his jacket, the boy’s mother called 911, according to Fox Atlanta.

‘The mother had found a knife sewn in the lining of a jacket and it definitely alarmed her,’ Sheriff Joe Chapman told the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Police searching the home then made an even more disturbing discovery, homemade explosives – a pipe bomb made with a plastic pipe and a hand grenade, according to reports. The grenade was designed to go off on impact.

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One was what you would consider a small pipe bomb and the other one was an inert hand grenade that he had packed full of powder and some fragments with percussion where you could throw it and it would go off,’ a police spokesperson told Fox Atlanta.

Officials rushed all inside the home to safety and called the Georgia Bureau of Investigation bomb squad in, reports said.

Officials also raised concern over the potential of the disturbed boy entering the courtroom with the knife.

Threatening: There is nothing to suggest the boy planned to bring the explosives or knife to school, but authorities are still concerned by the damage he could have inflicted

‘I don't know what his intentions
were with that knife, but it would scare me that it could potentially
get inside of a court house, the spokesperson added.

Though there is nothing to suggest the boy planned to take the explosives to school, officials are troubled by the finds. He was charged with two felony counts of possession of explosives for the bomb and the grenade, an official told MailOnline.

No charges were filed over the knife, the official added.

‘I can't say what his exact intentions were, but he definitely had the ability to hurt people,’ the spokesperson told the paper..

The teen's prior court appearance was for property damage, a law enforcement spokesperson told MailOnline, declining to disclose further details. He has no history of violence towards people, the spokesperson added.

The boy has had problems at school, the spokesperson noted, adding that his behavior is likely due to having difficulty with issues at home. The spokesperson declined to divulge any further details.

The boy was taken to a juvenile detention center and will likely be held for 10 days until he faces the charges. He will likely serve an additional 30 day sentence, the spokesperson said.